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Fedora 28: 2018-1c1a318a0b Critical: Git Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses a significant vulnerability in git that enables potential attackers to run unauthorized code via cloned repositories.
Upstream security update resolving an issue with `git clone --recurse- submodules`

Summary

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an

unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations

and full access to internals.

The git rpm installs common set of tools which are usually using with

small amount of dependencies. To install all git packages, including

tools for integrating with other SCMs, install the git-all meta-package.

Upstream security update resolving an issue with `git clone --recurse-submodules`. From the [upstream release announcement](): > These releases

fix a security flaw (CVE-2018-17456), which allowed an > attacker to execute

arbitrary code by crafting a malicious .gitmodules > file in a project cloned

with --recurse-submodules. > > When running "git clone --recurse-submodules",

Git parses the supplied > .gitmodules file for a URL field and blindly passes it

as an argument > to a "git clone" subprocess. If the URL field is set to a

string that > begins with a dash, this "git clone" subprocess interprets the URL

as > an option. This can lead to executing an arbitrary script shipped in > the

superproject as the user who ran "git clone". > > In addition to fixing the

security issue for the user running "clone", > the 2.17.2, 2.18.1 and 2.19.1

releases have an "fsck" check which can > be used to detect such malicious

repository content when fetching or > accepting a push. See

"transfer.fsckObjects" in git-config(1). > > Credit for finding and fixing this

vulnerability goes to joernchen > and Jeff King, respectively.

* Fri Oct 5 2018 Todd Zullinger - 2.17.2-1

- Update to 2.17.2 (CVE-2018-17456)

* Thu Jun 14 2018 Todd Zullinger - 2.17.1-3

- Apply upstream zlib buffer handling patch (#1582555)

* Wed May 30 2018 Todd Zullinger

- Disable jgit tests on s390x, they're unreliable

- Use %make_build and %make_install

- add -p: fix counting empty context lines in edited patches

* Tue May 29 2018 Todd Zullinger - 2.17.1-2

- packfile: Correct zlib buffer handling (#1582555)

* Tue May 29 2018 Todd Zullinger - 2.17.1-1

- Update to 2.17.1 (CVE-2018-11233, CVE-2018-11235)

* Thu May 24 2018 Todd Zullinger - 2.17.0-4

- Fix segfault in rev-parse with invalid input (#1581678)

- Move TEST_SHELL_PATH setting to config.mak

* Mon Apr 16 2018 Todd Zullinger - 2.17.0-3

- Move linkcheck macro to existing fedora/rhel > 7 block

- Re-enable t5000-tar-tree.sh test on f28

* Fri Apr 13 2018 Pavel Cahyna

- Use BuildRequires: perl-interpreter per the packaging guidelines

- Update conditions for future RHEL

* Tue Apr 10 2018 Todd Zullinger - 2.17.0-2

- Require perl-generators on EL > 7

* Mon Apr 9 2018 Todd Zullinger

- daemon: use --log-destination=stderr with systemd

- daemon: fix condition for redirecting stderr

- git-svn: avoid uninitialized value warning

* Sun Apr 8 2018 Todd Zullinger

- Clean up redundant and unneeded Requires

* Sat Apr 7 2018 Todd Zullinger

- Remove Git::LoadCPAN to ensure we use only system perl modules

[ 1 ] Bug #1636619 - CVE-2018-17456 git: arbitrary code execution via .gitmodules

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1636619

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-1c1a318a0b' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 2.17.2
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: Fast Version Control System

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